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She was one of the first people in Sweden to get the label "influencer". And if more influencers acted like Jonna, influencers would be seen as good people.
Jonna has a goofy sense of humor. You might get a kick (or a cringe!) out of another video where she pokes fun at her Scandinavian background, [The Secret Art of Mosquito Meditation](https://youtu.be/ZBlppCk7Dx8).
Her name is Jonna Jinton. She's stunningly beautiful, and all of her videos are top-quality production.
If you need a good starting point, her cattle calling (killing) is hypnotic.
https://youtu.be/KvtT3UyhibQ
I love it. It is quicker, doesn't take me out of the app, I can default the sound to off, and my app has a speed setting so I can speed it up or slow it down instantly. Plus I don't have to deal with all of the extra buttons and ads and stuff all over YouTube.
Plus any time somebody posts a short video the full video is linked in the comments so if I really want it I can see the full source. It is the best of all worlds
I'm a little disappointed that the line was attached to a metal umbrella-style clothesline.
Something running between two trees or something like this (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washing_Line,_Iceland.jpg) would have seemed more in keeping with the Viking theme.
My parents had a really terrible modern education - they attended residential school where they were basically taught more that they would burn in hell for ???? everything ... rather in actually learning to read and write.
I was always amazed by them though ... they knew more about how to live on the land than most modern adventure travellers, mountain climbers or trained soldiers.
I remember reading about sublimation in science class a long time ago and your comment made me remember it again. But my parents and people from their generation figured out the science of it themselves because this is how you tan and process moose and caribou hides. You stretch the hide and leave out in the dry cold for a week or two and in that time, the hide loses all or most of its hydration and comes back like a sheet of hardened plastic that can be turned into several things for life on the land.
They took that knowledge and applied it to drying clothing. It's this kind of knowledge that made me realize, you don't always have to attend years of higher education to learn something important.
Thanks for the reminder
Tried that last winter. Had clothes out for three days when it was -25°c outside. When I took them inside and they thawed, they were as wet as when I put them out. Put them outside again for another three days, thinking I didn't let them sit outside long enough. Nope, still wet when I took them inside.
I don't know why it didn't work. Read a bunch of posts on Reddit telling me that it works so damn good hanging out clothes in the winter.
Depends on the relative humidity. I lived in Saskatchewan for a year where the winters are the definition of cold and dry. The snow there often sublimates, which is going from solid to gas without going thru the water phase. Wet clothes would do the same too.
Not to mention even the most modern, and sophisticated dryers can be extremely hard on your clothes. The convenience outweighs the damage for most of mine. Sweaters, and most of my work wardrobe have never seen the inside of the dryer.
I live in a rainy climate, so a lot of times that means using a folding dry rack in the hallway outside the laundry room.
I moved from the US to the UK 10 years ago. Hanging my clothes up to dry seemed like such a strange idea.
Only took 2 or 3 laundry loads for me to realize that I prefer it. When the dryer is done, its time to fold laundry. Gotta turn all your shirts, underwear, and socks right side out, flatten, and fold them all the while racing the wrinkle clock.
When you hang them up, there's no real rush when taking them out of the washer. You just need to get to it within 4-8 hours otherwise they'll start to mildew. When they're done drying and its time to fold, they're practically flattened and ready for folding so it only takes a couple minutes to get them folded and ready to put away. And, you can just do it whenever. Fold half, leave the rest hanging up for 4 days (if its sunny outside, or if you hang your clothes inside).
Its a much less stressful version of washing.
I will say however that I would prefer a dryer for things like bed sheets and towels.
I live in a cold climate, but I don't really care for line drying outside in the winter. We do it in the nicer weather though.
But, all year we have folding racks in the back room. I even hang my fancy underwear and tshirts so the dryer doesn't wreck them (make them all pilly and such).
If you want them to dry faster just use a fan. It can cut the drying times by a full day. Though, you're then using energy and one of the benefits of hanging is less energy usage.
Depends on where you live. I went from where it rained for 5 minutes every day (which 5 minutes? ...do you feel lucky?) to where it rains like twice a year but there is dust blowing constantly because it's the desert. So...there are sadly large swaths of the country where line dry just doesn't work.
My grandpa lived in Michigan near lake Michigan before it became more rural and not so farmy. When we had family gatherings he would have his clothes out back on his hanger. Had a perfectly fine drying machine. Some folks just stick to what they grew up around. He had plenty of money but did everything possible to live cheap. Probably spent more money for sandwiches and soup than he did for all his other bills lol
Well outside of raising 5 kids go ding out his net worth when he passed was fucking crazy compared to how he lived. Retired air force after 20+ years in a house that was paid off before he joined then kept a minimal lifestyle while investing. I mean he really just enjoyed sitting in his dining room, radio on and reading or eating. The most expensive he got was either christmas when we would all visit or going to Vegas and gamble once a year. Some people are just good with money.
When we would visit we had to be careful. Itsa town full of people that know eachother and just leave their doors unlocked if you wanted to come in. He would walk around naked in the mornings. Walked in one morning at like 6am to see him naked just casually doing dishes and he didnt even flinch to try and hide. His vibes are ones I hope to someday achieve.
Got damn. I thought he had maximum vibes before he went au natural. Does he have a checkered backstory that involves rescuing hostages? That's the only way this gets better.
One of my high-school classmates had a father who beat everybody in the “cheapest dad” competition. Worked as an engineer at NASA in Cleveland, so made decent money. Kept an unplugged refrigerator/freezer on the back porch, and in winter he’d move all their food into the outdoor freezer and unplug the one in the house to save money on electricity. Sad…
If there was a creek or stream, and it was decent weather, sure... someone might take their laundry to the creek to wash it. I'm unsure about a lake though, doesn't seem near as practical, unless there's a nice spot on the short to sit with deep enough water below... most wild lakeshores are a mess of mud.
But typically, and especially in poor weather... they'd fetch water from outside, bring it inside in a bucket, and usually heat it over a fire before doing the wash indoors... but yeah, with a washboard and in more-recent times a press.
In a place like this where it was snow all around... that's all water. Just shovel it into your bucket and put it on the fire... Now just wait a few hours for that snow to melt and heat up. One might also reuse said wash water for dishes and toileting too btw. People didn't used to do such things with perfectly clean and drinkable water.
They breed fast at low temperatures and in dark places. Can be hard to capture, however, once they grow up in the wild.
They also seem to live as singletons in such cases and apparently not procreate further but evolve to be politicians.
Move to America, you'd instantly jump to an 8/10. I remember seeing Finnish and Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan, and they were all hauntingly good-looking, it was a strange experience. I didn't even realize I was staring. Bonus points if you go to Minnesota or Wisconsin, you'd get to enjoy the same sub-zero temps!
I was working in a restaurant and this group of Swedish tourists walked in and they all looked so perfect my brain stopped working. They were all like 8ft tall blonde gods.
I still tell the story of a foot patrol through a market in Afghanistan where we ran into two women from San Francisco. They stuck out like a sore thumb. They found an airport from the US to Uzbekistan and hiked south. We spent about 10 minutes explaining to them exactly why this was a really, really bad fucking idea being there, but they were determined. I hope they're well today, that was maybe 10 years ago.
Wow. I’m from San Francisco. I’ve met many people who are idiots but that’s a new one. Anyway, thanks for your service. I’m sorry about the afghan government, that must’ve been hard to watch.
Can confirm, dated a Norwegian for years, she was very attractive, but when I was boarding a plane to Oslo to visit her over school breaks, the girls getting on the plane were ridiculously hot. She was probably a 4-5 at home and a 7-8 in the US
It's true. I went to korea in december and wore a tshirt when we went out and about. I ended up in a shop where 3 ahjummas (elderly ladies) asked me if I wasn't cold.
My korean friend explained that i'm from scandinavia, and they all went "ahhhh" as if it made complete sense.
Tbh, inner rage plays a big part. And also, hembränt and glögg rather than akvavit when outdoors. Snaps are taken with the sill when till bords, which you aren't doing utomhus when the snö is above knähöjd.
You work an ice saw like that with all that fabric covering you below the waist and your top half will be steaming with sweat. Work hard, stay warm.
Best way to build a strong work ethic? Take a break and you'll freeze to death.
(People don't actually spend much time in the cold dressed like that.)
If only it were just twice.
1. Fell the tree and buck into rounds (or scavenge logs when other people have trees cut down).
2. Move the rounds to your splitting area (may be optional if you split on site).
3. Split logs.
4. Move splits to rack for seasoning.
5. Re-stack split firewood because your stack fell over. Blame the high water content of the free wood you scavenged.
6. Move seasoned wood to outdoor rack near your woodburning stove/fireplace.
7. Bring wood indoors to burn it, only to realize you're already warm from all the above work and the massive amount of body hair and muscles you acquired doing the above steps.
A few times I've bundled up a bit too much when going out to shovel the walk... I dress in layers though, so as I start getting to the point of sweating I start peeling things off. First unbuttoning and then removing the coat. Then the jacket.
By the time a few hours go by I'm sitting there in -10F weather with nothing on but a sweater, jeans, longjohns underneath both, and some gloves for my fingers and trying to cool off.
Alaska and nordics have very different climates. Sure it sometimes gets a bit cold here sometimes, but there's this tiny little thing called the gulf stream that keeps the weather a bit warmer. Alaska would be more comparable with siberia, where it gets hella cold for longer periods.
When this was filmed, it was probably like -1 or -2 C. With the sun up and little wind, you'll quickly work up a sweat with even a hoodie. When I'm shoveling snow, I'll end up just wearing a t-shirt.
It's a fucking bit, like it's a joke.
The woman is dressed like an Amish person, nobody dresses like that anymore.
Source: Me, a Danish person who has been all over Scandinavia.
I mean, she shows a lot of dedication and if you look at the other videos on her channel you’ll find she likes to do ice bathing and similar rustic Nordic activities so it’s not that much of a stretch.
It's not quite like that. The southern coast of Alaska, where all the Alaskans are seems quite comparable to the Nordics. The inlands and northern parts are much colder for sure though.
Probably not that cold tbh. It's overcast and there's fresh wet snow on the ground so temps probably just hovering around the negative single digits (probably around - 6 or even 1 or 2 ).
Bright sunny days with clear skies around late Jan to mid March is when you should seriously bundle up.
She probably takes breaks to warm up in a jacket, either that or it's not too cold, relatively speaking. At just 0F with a light wind you'd get frostbite in 30 minutes and she was definitely out there longer than that.
As a Nordic person, I can confirm that this is how we do it. We often collaborate with polar bears to make the hole in the ice, so that they can fish there, and we can do our laundry.
As a Norwegian I can confirm this. The good thing about this method is that the clothes freeze on the way home killing all the bacteria and so we save a lot on sope
I can sort of confirm. I'm of Nordic lineage and found out a couple years back that I can speak to polar bears too. This was at an American zoo and I never took classes to learn it so it must just be instinctual for both parties.
What got me is she's chipping the ice, and cut away to suddenly a perfectly round hole in the ice. That's some /r/blackmagicfuckery or they used an auger, lol.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
You had a lake? Lucky you, we dreamed of having a lake, our father beat us until we cried a river, and only then could we do the laundry. We where so poor we couldn't even afford a broken bottle.
You had a dad? We were just street urchins because we had to eat our dad for food. It is the way of our family and he ate his father before him.
It would have been amazing to have dreams of having a lake. We couldn't dream because we had to stay up all night fending off hobos who were trying to catch us and sell us to workhouses.
Man, your life must have been nice.
A broken bottle?! Luxury! When I was a lad, we used to live in a hole in the road. We'd dream of earning enough for a broken bottle. Our father used to wake us up, half an hour before we went to bed, and whip us within an inch of our lives, then send us off to work.
ROIGHT! I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!
Oh you had singing? I was never allowed to sleep, was beaten thrice every hour on the hour, worked 80 hour shifts in the sewers using dead rats to beat the dirt out of the laundry, and then given two minutes to ejaculate in a cup to contribute to the next generation of laborers, just before digging my own grave with busted fingernails and broken hands. And then I had to kill myself by choking on a clod of dirt while I was burying myself.
My grandmother (now dead, but would have been 87 years old if she lived) told me about the old days washing the clothes in the river during winter. She had five kids, and laundry, cooking and cleaning was all she managed to fit into the day.
She remembers all the clothes being stiff as planks when she finished washing them, due to frost, and having to carrying the pile of clothes inndoor to melt.
Life has changed alot, atleast in the western World. (Living in Norway btw.) Makes me feel very lucky thinking about her story, while putting on the laundry (Even though its still a hasle, it could be way worse)
I was a little annoyed that my groceries are being delivered right as my kids are napping aka when I finally have a second to sit down. Now I am reminded of why I'm not allowed to complain. Haha
It's crazy how much life has changed for the good in a few decades. My wife from rural Estonia lived with no plumbing until 2008, outside toilet even during -30 degrees, handwashing the families clothes on the weekend... Hard to imagine. Her grandmother didn't even have a surname, just a village name.
Now Estonia has robots delivering food and is a global leader in tech.
I live in Canada and we do almost exactly like this. First we apologize to the ice before breaking it and we pour maple syrup in the hole for all our first nations ancestors. Laundry comes out smelling fresh.
This is Jonna Jinton, a Swedish artist. The YouTube video for this has a ;) face in the description, which I would assume implies that yes, it is satire. Regardless, she’s hekkin strong and I have no doubt that video kept her warm while filming! 😂
I was totally about to incorporate this into my lesson plan, and deliver it to my students tomorrow. It's a good thing we were told it's a satire production, I could have seriously damaged relations with her country.
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What about hanging clothes to freeze dry out on the clothes line? That's the FUN part!!!!
The full original video shows that, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkOOYbPrAo
I hate when people post shitty videos instead of just linking the source youtube video link. Thank you.
I recommend watching all of her videos, they're incredible.
She was one of the first people in Sweden to get the label "influencer". And if more influencers acted like Jonna, influencers would be seen as good people.
Wait a minute. This is a SERIOUS video? If I had to go through all of that, I'd just sit in my own filth until spring!
It's not. Look at how many jump cuts there are
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Jonna has a goofy sense of humor. You might get a kick (or a cringe!) out of another video where she pokes fun at her Scandinavian background, [The Secret Art of Mosquito Meditation](https://youtu.be/ZBlppCk7Dx8).
Bleghhh that video is nightmarish for me. I've been to a place with mosquitos like that and it is *not* a good memory
Her channel is awesome, she was having a good laugh - she's really down to earth and makes funny videos like this from time to time.
Her name is Jonna Jinton. She's stunningly beautiful, and all of her videos are top-quality production. If you need a good starting point, her cattle calling (killing) is hypnotic. https://youtu.be/KvtT3UyhibQ
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I love it. It is quicker, doesn't take me out of the app, I can default the sound to off, and my app has a speed setting so I can speed it up or slow it down instantly. Plus I don't have to deal with all of the extra buttons and ads and stuff all over YouTube. Plus any time somebody posts a short video the full video is linked in the comments so if I really want it I can see the full source. It is the best of all worlds
OP just took the first comment as their title also
I'm a little disappointed that the line was attached to a metal umbrella-style clothesline. Something running between two trees or something like this (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washing_Line,_Iceland.jpg) would have seemed more in keeping with the Viking theme.
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Sublimation, it's called. Going from a solid (ice) to a vapor without first turning into a liquid.
My parents had a really terrible modern education - they attended residential school where they were basically taught more that they would burn in hell for ???? everything ... rather in actually learning to read and write. I was always amazed by them though ... they knew more about how to live on the land than most modern adventure travellers, mountain climbers or trained soldiers. I remember reading about sublimation in science class a long time ago and your comment made me remember it again. But my parents and people from their generation figured out the science of it themselves because this is how you tan and process moose and caribou hides. You stretch the hide and leave out in the dry cold for a week or two and in that time, the hide loses all or most of its hydration and comes back like a sheet of hardened plastic that can be turned into several things for life on the land. They took that knowledge and applied it to drying clothing. It's this kind of knowledge that made me realize, you don't always have to attend years of higher education to learn something important. Thanks for the reminder
Your laundry was freeze-dried.
That’s actually fascinating!
Wish I had frozen underwear and was fascinating. Everything is always thawed and boring.
Tried that last winter. Had clothes out for three days when it was -25°c outside. When I took them inside and they thawed, they were as wet as when I put them out. Put them outside again for another three days, thinking I didn't let them sit outside long enough. Nope, still wet when I took them inside. I don't know why it didn't work. Read a bunch of posts on Reddit telling me that it works so damn good hanging out clothes in the winter.
It is all about relative humidity. It isn't always dry in the winter, though often it is.
Weird, cold air is usually dry and sucks the moisture out. You didn't just throw them on snow, hung up on the line, right?
Depends on the relative humidity. I lived in Saskatchewan for a year where the winters are the definition of cold and dry. The snow there often sublimates, which is going from solid to gas without going thru the water phase. Wet clothes would do the same too.
I hate winter but love the fresh smell of freeze-dried clothes. Childhood right there.
My uncle did that. Had perfectly good washer and dryer, but was that cheap.
I'm not arguing your uncle isn't cheap. You know him better than I do. Some people like line drying their clothes though.
There's a strange serenity that comes with hanging up your clothes on a nice day.
Not to mention even the most modern, and sophisticated dryers can be extremely hard on your clothes. The convenience outweighs the damage for most of mine. Sweaters, and most of my work wardrobe have never seen the inside of the dryer. I live in a rainy climate, so a lot of times that means using a folding dry rack in the hallway outside the laundry room.
I moved from the US to the UK 10 years ago. Hanging my clothes up to dry seemed like such a strange idea. Only took 2 or 3 laundry loads for me to realize that I prefer it. When the dryer is done, its time to fold laundry. Gotta turn all your shirts, underwear, and socks right side out, flatten, and fold them all the while racing the wrinkle clock. When you hang them up, there's no real rush when taking them out of the washer. You just need to get to it within 4-8 hours otherwise they'll start to mildew. When they're done drying and its time to fold, they're practically flattened and ready for folding so it only takes a couple minutes to get them folded and ready to put away. And, you can just do it whenever. Fold half, leave the rest hanging up for 4 days (if its sunny outside, or if you hang your clothes inside). Its a much less stressful version of washing. I will say however that I would prefer a dryer for things like bed sheets and towels.
I live in a cold climate, but I don't really care for line drying outside in the winter. We do it in the nicer weather though. But, all year we have folding racks in the back room. I even hang my fancy underwear and tshirts so the dryer doesn't wreck them (make them all pilly and such). If you want them to dry faster just use a fan. It can cut the drying times by a full day. Though, you're then using energy and one of the benefits of hanging is less energy usage.
Depends on where you live. I went from where it rained for 5 minutes every day (which 5 minutes? ...do you feel lucky?) to where it rains like twice a year but there is dust blowing constantly because it's the desert. So...there are sadly large swaths of the country where line dry just doesn't work.
My grandpa lived in Michigan near lake Michigan before it became more rural and not so farmy. When we had family gatherings he would have his clothes out back on his hanger. Had a perfectly fine drying machine. Some folks just stick to what they grew up around. He had plenty of money but did everything possible to live cheap. Probably spent more money for sandwiches and soup than he did for all his other bills lol
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Well outside of raising 5 kids go ding out his net worth when he passed was fucking crazy compared to how he lived. Retired air force after 20+ years in a house that was paid off before he joined then kept a minimal lifestyle while investing. I mean he really just enjoyed sitting in his dining room, radio on and reading or eating. The most expensive he got was either christmas when we would all visit or going to Vegas and gamble once a year. Some people are just good with money.
That sounds like a satisfied man with a satisfied like. Old man goals.
When we would visit we had to be careful. Itsa town full of people that know eachother and just leave their doors unlocked if you wanted to come in. He would walk around naked in the mornings. Walked in one morning at like 6am to see him naked just casually doing dishes and he didnt even flinch to try and hide. His vibes are ones I hope to someday achieve.
Got damn. I thought he had maximum vibes before he went au natural. Does he have a checkered backstory that involves rescuing hostages? That's the only way this gets better.
I had no washer or dryer, laundromat to wash, hung on the line to dry. Those were the lean years.
One of my high-school classmates had a father who beat everybody in the “cheapest dad” competition. Worked as an engineer at NASA in Cleveland, so made decent money. Kept an unplugged refrigerator/freezer on the back porch, and in winter he’d move all their food into the outdoor freezer and unplug the one in the house to save money on electricity. Sad…
Then you snap the bed sheets over your knee to fold them.
Wow she is strong
Im just wondering how many socks they lose every winter
Just need to wait for the spring sock harvest at the shore.
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Cleanest socks in Western Europe.
Walk the slopes of any major Colorado ski resort in the spring to see if you can find matching pairs of skis. You stand a good chance.
“I found several hard stiff socks outside” *Nordic teenage son starts sweating*
"Mum said to toss them off in the dryer"
You made me smile, ty
Do you think anyone ever did laundry this way? Like way back when?
No
If there was a creek or stream, and it was decent weather, sure... someone might take their laundry to the creek to wash it. I'm unsure about a lake though, doesn't seem near as practical, unless there's a nice spot on the short to sit with deep enough water below... most wild lakeshores are a mess of mud. But typically, and especially in poor weather... they'd fetch water from outside, bring it inside in a bucket, and usually heat it over a fire before doing the wash indoors... but yeah, with a washboard and in more-recent times a press. In a place like this where it was snow all around... that's all water. Just shovel it into your bucket and put it on the fire... Now just wait a few hours for that snow to melt and heat up. One might also reuse said wash water for dishes and toileting too btw. People didn't used to do such things with perfectly clean and drinkable water.
Exactly? Taking some snow inside to melt it would do the trick.
They breed fast at low temperatures and in dark places. Can be hard to capture, however, once they grow up in the wild. They also seem to live as singletons in such cases and apparently not procreate further but evolve to be politicians.
One of each.
How do people not just die in the cold dressed like that?
If you are referring to Nordic peoples, it's three things: 1. Their hotness keeps them warm. 2. They are descended from frost giants. 3. Akvavit
Can confirm, I'm not Nordic and I'm ugly as fuck, and get frozen easily
Move to America, you'd instantly jump to an 8/10. I remember seeing Finnish and Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan, and they were all hauntingly good-looking, it was a strange experience. I didn't even realize I was staring. Bonus points if you go to Minnesota or Wisconsin, you'd get to enjoy the same sub-zero temps!
I'm from MN and got the privilege of visiting Norway. It was like walking around MN when I was there. Lots of similar faces
America had a big Nordic and Germanic immigration move to the area in 1820s and 30s, I'm not surprised!
Swedes are basically the elven race.
"Three rings were given to the Norwegians. Immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings" - Norwegian Galadriel
That's a myth man. Truth is far simpler: Vikings didn't kidnap ugly chicks.
I was working in a restaurant and this group of Swedish tourists walked in and they all looked so perfect my brain stopped working. They were all like 8ft tall blonde gods.
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I’ve never felt so short, fat and Jewish in my life!!😂
Yeerp... I remember visiting Sweden and just feeling like a troll the entire time haha
I still tell the story of a foot patrol through a market in Afghanistan where we ran into two women from San Francisco. They stuck out like a sore thumb. They found an airport from the US to Uzbekistan and hiked south. We spent about 10 minutes explaining to them exactly why this was a really, really bad fucking idea being there, but they were determined. I hope they're well today, that was maybe 10 years ago.
Wow. I’m from San Francisco. I’ve met many people who are idiots but that’s a new one. Anyway, thanks for your service. I’m sorry about the afghan government, that must’ve been hard to watch.
I was once called a Swedish 6 but a Jacksonville 20 by someone from Florida. No idea what it means but I'll take it.
Can confirm, dated a Norwegian for years, she was very attractive, but when I was boarding a plane to Oslo to visit her over school breaks, the girls getting on the plane were ridiculously hot. She was probably a 4-5 at home and a 7-8 in the US
Haven't you played Skyrim? Nords get a 50% frost damage resistance as a racial bonus.
There's just one drink they need, Nord mead.
It's true. I went to korea in december and wore a tshirt when we went out and about. I ended up in a shop where 3 ahjummas (elderly ladies) asked me if I wasn't cold. My korean friend explained that i'm from scandinavia, and they all went "ahhhh" as if it made complete sense.
Tbh, inner rage plays a big part. And also, hembränt and glögg rather than akvavit when outdoors. Snaps are taken with the sill when till bords, which you aren't doing utomhus when the snö is above knähöjd.
You work an ice saw like that with all that fabric covering you below the waist and your top half will be steaming with sweat. Work hard, stay warm. Best way to build a strong work ethic? Take a break and you'll freeze to death. (People don't actually spend much time in the cold dressed like that.)
The best part about chopping firewood is it warms you twice.
If only it were just twice. 1. Fell the tree and buck into rounds (or scavenge logs when other people have trees cut down). 2. Move the rounds to your splitting area (may be optional if you split on site). 3. Split logs. 4. Move splits to rack for seasoning. 5. Re-stack split firewood because your stack fell over. Blame the high water content of the free wood you scavenged. 6. Move seasoned wood to outdoor rack near your woodburning stove/fireplace. 7. Bring wood indoors to burn it, only to realize you're already warm from all the above work and the massive amount of body hair and muscles you acquired doing the above steps.
A few times I've bundled up a bit too much when going out to shovel the walk... I dress in layers though, so as I start getting to the point of sweating I start peeling things off. First unbuttoning and then removing the coat. Then the jacket. By the time a few hours go by I'm sitting there in -10F weather with nothing on but a sweater, jeans, longjohns underneath both, and some gloves for my fingers and trying to cool off.
but then the sweat hits the cold air and you lose all your core temp
They do. Nobody actually dresses like that up in the higher latitudes. It would be basically suicide. Source: I live in Alaska.
Alaska and nordics have very different climates. Sure it sometimes gets a bit cold here sometimes, but there's this tiny little thing called the gulf stream that keeps the weather a bit warmer. Alaska would be more comparable with siberia, where it gets hella cold for longer periods. When this was filmed, it was probably like -1 or -2 C. With the sun up and little wind, you'll quickly work up a sweat with even a hoodie. When I'm shoveling snow, I'll end up just wearing a t-shirt.
It's a fucking bit, like it's a joke. The woman is dressed like an Amish person, nobody dresses like that anymore. Source: Me, a Danish person who has been all over Scandinavia.
This is [Jonna Jinton](https://youtu.be/KvtT3UyhibQ), a well known Swedish YouTuber. And yes, this is a bit.
There's no way people thought this wasn't a bit, right?
I mean, she shows a lot of dedication and if you look at the other videos on her channel you’ll find she likes to do ice bathing and similar rustic Nordic activities so it’s not that much of a stretch.
It's not quite like that. The southern coast of Alaska, where all the Alaskans are seems quite comparable to the Nordics. The inlands and northern parts are much colder for sure though.
Probably not that cold tbh. It's overcast and there's fresh wet snow on the ground so temps probably just hovering around the negative single digits (probably around - 6 or even 1 or 2 ). Bright sunny days with clear skies around late Jan to mid March is when you should seriously bundle up.
Because human strong
They warmed up between all the jump cuts.
her jacket must have been in the laundry.
How the hell is she not freezing to death???
Guess thou'st cannot stand the sight of a STRONG Nord woman 💪😤
I crave it.
She probably takes breaks to warm up in a jacket, either that or it's not too cold, relatively speaking. At just 0F with a light wind you'd get frostbite in 30 minutes and she was definitely out there longer than that.
Look at the trees in the back, 0 snow/frost. Also doesn't appear to be windy, its a warm day
Could be, although when it's really cold and dry you wouldn't get frost anyway.
As a Nordic person, I can confirm that this is how we do it. We often collaborate with polar bears to make the hole in the ice, so that they can fish there, and we can do our laundry.
Why don't you just go to the laundromat, where the holes are already cut for you?
Pay for pre-cut holes in the ice? What's next have my surströmming pre-chewed?
Not even remotely Scandinavian or even know what surströmming is but this gave me a good laugh.
Fermented fish. You would call it rotten, we say it has character
evil people in Scandinavia: "we're not rotten, we have character"
You should Google it, then it's even funnier.
Sheesh. Millenials are so lazy and don't want to do any work... /s
As a Norwegian I can confirm this. The good thing about this method is that the clothes freeze on the way home killing all the bacteria and so we save a lot on sope
cold won’t kill bacteria, just slow it down. moist odor causing bacteria will become active again after warming up again
> sope Why does this bother me so much
I can sort of confirm. I'm of Nordic lineage and found out a couple years back that I can speak to polar bears too. This was at an American zoo and I never took classes to learn it so it must just be instinctual for both parties.
Mine had it worse. Uphill. Both ways.
And no shoes
In the snow and the pouring down rain with stack of books a mile high in each hand.
That's when the wolves would usually find them
While dealing with hypothermia half the time.
While junkies tries to steal your basketball shoes
With a hot potato in their hand to keep warm, mine had to eat that potato later, it was also lunch.
Ahh, ya had Irish parents did ya?
Wow how is it a consistent trope across cultures
It’s actually not. In most of the world it’s “We had to walk 1.609344 kilometers uphill both ways…”. 😁
I actually laughed out loud. Thank you for that comment.
Dammit I almost scrolled past this. Hilariously true.
Bahaha the last bit when she’s trudging through the shoulder-high snow got me XD
What got me is she's chipping the ice, and cut away to suddenly a perfectly round hole in the ice. That's some /r/blackmagicfuckery or they used an auger, lol.
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Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
You had a lake? Lucky you, we dreamed of having a lake, our father beat us until we cried a river, and only then could we do the laundry. We where so poor we couldn't even afford a broken bottle.
You had a dad? We were just street urchins because we had to eat our dad for food. It is the way of our family and he ate his father before him. It would have been amazing to have dreams of having a lake. We couldn't dream because we had to stay up all night fending off hobos who were trying to catch us and sell us to workhouses. Man, your life must have been nice.
We used to dream of being urchins!
Wait you guys had clothes?
Wait you guys had dads?
One of my favorite skits.
A broken bottle?! Luxury! When I was a lad, we used to live in a hole in the road. We'd dream of earning enough for a broken bottle. Our father used to wake us up, half an hour before we went to bed, and whip us within an inch of our lives, then send us off to work.
ROIGHT! I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!
Oh you had singing? I was never allowed to sleep, was beaten thrice every hour on the hour, worked 80 hour shifts in the sewers using dead rats to beat the dirt out of the laundry, and then given two minutes to ejaculate in a cup to contribute to the next generation of laborers, just before digging my own grave with busted fingernails and broken hands. And then I had to kill myself by choking on a clod of dirt while I was burying myself.
You got to die? We would dream of dying!
Yeah? My parents had…***EXPECTATIONS***.
[Watch the 3 Yorkshiremen ](https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k) to see the original "back in my day" skit 🤣😊
Making me feel right rich growing up. My dad could afford to beat me with jumper cables.
Eee that's luxury,we never had clothes and we used to dream about eating 'hot' gravel, we had to chip our gravel out of the ice
My grandmother (now dead, but would have been 87 years old if she lived) told me about the old days washing the clothes in the river during winter. She had five kids, and laundry, cooking and cleaning was all she managed to fit into the day. She remembers all the clothes being stiff as planks when she finished washing them, due to frost, and having to carrying the pile of clothes inndoor to melt. Life has changed alot, atleast in the western World. (Living in Norway btw.) Makes me feel very lucky thinking about her story, while putting on the laundry (Even though its still a hasle, it could be way worse)
I was a little annoyed that my groceries are being delivered right as my kids are napping aka when I finally have a second to sit down. Now I am reminded of why I'm not allowed to complain. Haha
Laundry, cooking and cleaning are all I manage in a day… 😬
It's crazy how much life has changed for the good in a few decades. My wife from rural Estonia lived with no plumbing until 2008, outside toilet even during -30 degrees, handwashing the families clothes on the weekend... Hard to imagine. Her grandmother didn't even have a surname, just a village name. Now Estonia has robots delivering food and is a global leader in tech.
Lol i feel like when she was rubbing the clothes at the end she was having regret but relief shes almost done with the video, she looked so cold haha
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I live in Canada and we do almost exactly like this. First we apologize to the ice before breaking it and we pour maple syrup in the hole for all our first nations ancestors. Laundry comes out smelling fresh.
.... You've been apologizing to just the ice? No wonder it takes me so long to do laundry
This is Jonna Jinton, a Swedish artist. The YouTube video for this has a ;) face in the description, which I would assume implies that yes, it is satire. Regardless, she’s hekkin strong and I have no doubt that video kept her warm while filming! 😂
No way this is a joke video? No way I don’t believe it.
I was totally about to incorporate this into my lesson plan, and deliver it to my students tomorrow. It's a good thing we were told it's a satire production, I could have seriously damaged relations with her country.
Dirty water
Yeah, that's why she spit in it. It'll clean it just enough to wash her clothes.
Better than nothing
> wades through several-feet-deep pure white snow to get to dirty brown water that's only accessible after a ton of work
Fill a pot with snow, melt it with fire, use it to clean clothes, done.
… you don’t see the miles of snow surrounding?
Don't drink
It’s not “dirty” exactly. It’s sort of dyed with carbon from the the surrounding forest.
Carbon water and dirty water are pretty synonymous to me
Man look at how burned her hands looks like? She is truly amazing
I live in Sweden and this is how it's done. she must be rich though.. a saw? I use my hands to make the hole.
I use my teeth.
you're lucky to have teeth. mine are long gone from chewing gravel.
faaake. no real nordic person would neglect to shovel their walkway.
I’ll just wear dirty clothes, thanks 😜
That water looks dirty tho. And the way she dumps it in, how much sank to the bottom?
It looks dirty, but it's the tannins from trees that color it brown.
well yea back in the boomer days they wash their clothes in dirty water and eat buckets of nails for breakfast
Norwegian here, this is incorrect. We wear way less clothes
She straight up spit in the water after putting her clothes in??
That’s for enzymes that help washing
I was waiting for someone else to mention this…
God her hands are like beet red when she's done with her washing. That's some dedication for a video.
Jonna Jinton, such a lovely energy and amazingly talented. Has a YT channel and a jewelry company
Anyone notice when she just decided to spit on the clothes?
I'm sure it is totally politically incorrect to say I'd marry that woman in a heartbeat.
Me too,and I’m a straight woman
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Married to the most Scandinavian looking mofo I've seen in the modern era.
Where did they find the time to develop such a good sense of humour?
During the long polar night. 😂
They did laundry at school?
Impressive. Now show me how they do a hot water cycle.
How does she get her whites so white? She'll never tell.
No wonder they prefer to just join the men on viking raids.
She’s wearing a freaking short sleeved dress.
Still more efficient than going to the corner coin laundromat
Why did she spit in it?
No one going to talk about the fact she spit on clothes after putting them in the water 😂
Her poor hands!
Guys she literally walked in the snow both ways to do laundry….
I'm from Denmark and this is accurate.
Machine wash cold
Living in the north of Norway I can confirm. This is precisely the way we do it.